He was gone, gone, gone into the blue   Didn't take that long    To disappear from view   Left all his mates huddled in the pub   To the coast that London no longer loved      His palm tree moonlight and new buddies in the bar   Pacific pills and golden rainbow grass   He felt at home at last   Went out in the evening to find a sadder girl   Don't feel bad you know you're not alone   And this is your new home      He was gone, gone, gone into the blue   Didn't take that long    To disappear from view   And he rolled, rolled, rolled to the harmony   With a shirt of pearls and a kinder sea      He wrote me threaded letters of how he had it made   Got some desert sounds and the sound was great   Played with the friends he'd made   Wrote the black words with tears in their eyes   About some girl he'd married   And how she'd died, oh how she'd died      He was gone, gone, gone into the blue   Didn't take that long    To disappear from view   Francisco blows so long, so slow   And his pale beer eyes filled up so low      And I understand   To feel complete and live inside mirage   Oh, I understand   To feel complete to write down the mirage   And sing hello morning goodbyes   To sing hello morning goodbyes   And sing hello morning goodbyes...      He was gone, gone, gone into the blue   Didn't take that long    To disappear from view   And he rolled, rolled, rolled to the harmony   With a shirt of pearls and a kinder sea